Weird New Worlds

This is the third lecture in the 2019-2020 series of IOP Edinburgh Winter Lectures.

With literally thousands of exoplanet candidates discovered to date, we now know of a few relatively Earthlike worlds -- and many many more planets very different from those in our own solar system! I will discuss what we know already about these worlds and what we will be learning in the next decades as new and more advanced telescopes come online. I'll discuss as the prospects for getting the first "weather reports" from extrasolar planets and show the first weather maps made for brown dwarfs -- objects a bit bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

A poster for the 2019-2020 series of IOP Edinburgh Winter Lectures, together with talk abstracts can be found here:
http://home.eps.hw.ac.uk/~phyrrt/IOP_Edinburgh_2019_20
For any enquiries, contact Robert R. Thomson (R.R.Thomson@hw.ac.uk ).